Architectures Reports

EBOOK: How important are enterprise service buses (ESBs) to service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the enterprise? Will new efforts to understand ESBs pay off in the long-term? This e-book provides valuable insight on the role of ESBs in application integration and the modern enterprise.

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 | Published: 02 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn about a new single integrated solution that can support all desktop and application virtualization architectures in your enterprise.

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 | Published: 01 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Declining flexibility and increasing costs have driven many businesses to adopt cloud computing to improve efficiency with on-demand, virtual services. Access this white paper for a detailed overview of server power management, usage models purpose and pre-requisites, architectural considerations and much more.

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 | Published: 28 Oct 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript explores how unified computing architecture can really your help data center evolve to address today’s challenges.

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 | Published: 19 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This Microsoft Lync Server 2010 solution architecture manual contains possible configurations that can be used to architect your Lync 2010 infrastructure. Samples can serve as a blueprint for organizations with similar requirements. Each organization’s requirements can differ greatly and include items not accounted for in these configurations.

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an overview of common business use cases for which SharePoint is a good fit, introduces the services and functionality within SharePoint Server 2010, highlights key changes from MOSS 2007, and helps readers understand the terminology and concepts needed for planning or deploying a SharePoint 2010 farm.

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses key criteria and decision points for determining what server and storage hardware are appropriate for a medium-sized SharePoint Server 2010 farm. It offers guidelines and rules of thumb for determining how much storage space should be allocated, and when separate storage volumes are desirable.

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: What is cloud computing? It depends on who you ask. In this e-guide from SearchCloudComputing.com, our experts lay out the various types of cloud models, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). They reveal how virtualization and cloud computing are linked, as well as how to best use these technologies in your infrastructure.

Posted: 27 May 2011 | Published: 27 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines five things you need to know before developing an email management solution. It also seeks to dispel myths about SharePoint and Exchange.

Posted: 18 May 2011 | Published: 18 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Desktop virtualization is becoming more of a hot topic as it allows organizations to control costs and use limited resources to manage their desktop infrastructures. This white paper highlights an architectural design for a 50,000-seat VMware View architecture created by NetApp, Vmware, Cisco, Fujitsu, and Wyse. Learn more here.

Posted: 13 May 2011 | Published: 13 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper you'll discover what is needed for complete, open, and integrated business intelligence tools and technologies today. Explore the best-in-class capabilities for managing the development lifecycle for BI applications to meet the needs of today's insight-driven organizations.

Posted: 12 May 2011 | Published: 31 Jan 2011

EBOOK: Business intelligence (BI) is a natural fit for mobile devices. In this eBook, appropriate for business intelligence professionals, get a complete, accessible overview of mobile BI from industry expert Wayne Eckerson.

Posted: 12 May 2011 | Published: 12 May 2011

VIDEO: This session provides best practice and solution guidelines to successfully architect and deploy Oracle databases on the EMC and VMware platform.

Posted: 10 May 2011 | Premiered: 10 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This Magic Quadrant compares 18 vendors and the strengths and cautions they each bring to the table with marketing resource management. This provides means each company based on constant criteria, allowing you to choose a vendor that meets your needs.

Posted: 06 May 2011 | Published: 11 Feb 2011

EZINE: Before committing to a public or private cloud architecture, evaluate the benefits and especially the tradeoffs associated with each. Also in this issue, determine what needs are most important when planning your virtual applications, and find out how to monitor the performance of applications in the cloud.

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 | Published: 06 Apr 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: BI users need a positive and unified experience with their information applications to help them make critical, data-driven business decisions. In this webcast transcript, Shaku Atre, founder and managing partner of the Atre Group, discusses strategies to encourage BI user engagement with customizable dashboards and analytics.

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 | Published: 30 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Interstage BPM's superior architecture lets business users and IT professionals collaborate on defining and refining business processes. It empowers knowledge workers to stretch processes to fit to the business needs and it provides developers with the ability to easily create and deploy high performance process-based applications.

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 | Published: 03 Jan 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this transcript, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down the seven different layers of the server virtualization architecture, and explains the role the hypervisor plays in the success of that infrastructure.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this transcript, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down VMware ESX Server, Citrix XenServer and Hyper-V, providing details on what each product has to offer.

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 | Published: 19 Nov 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, learn how virtualization can benefit your disaster recovery and high availability strategy. Discover the differences between physical and virtual environments and learn about architectural considerations to support virtualization.

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 | Published: 18 Nov 2010

RESOURCE CENTER: This reference architecture describes the design for deploying and managing high-density clusters of VMs built on two hypervisors—VMware ESX* and Xen*—using Novell Cloud Manager.

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 | Published: 03 Nov 2010

WEBCAST: This webcast shows insights into enabling businesses to  face business challenges by combining business driven information systems and effective application portfolio management.

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 | Premiered: Nov 16, 2010, 11:00 EST (16:00 GMT)

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the Sybase CEP Implementation Methodology, which offers analytic developers a set of best practices for implementing Continuous Intelligence using Complex Event Processing. Sybase CEP provides a structured yet flexible approach to rapidly build Continuous Intelligence projects and deliver more analytic modules over time.

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 | Published: 28 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Recent reports expose the monumental growth rate of data volumes. With increasing data volumes comes a need for computational power to absorb and analyze all this data in an attempt to gain a competitive edge. This paper attempts to shed some light on the decision process for selecting a specialty analytic server in today's business environments.

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 | Published: 05 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Column-based databases can be slow deleting and updating data. Vertica’s Analytic Database is designed specifically for storing and querying large datasets. Vertica’s differentiator is that it combines a columnar database engine with MPP and shared-nothing architecture, aggressive data-compression rates, and high availability.

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 | Published: 16 Jul 2010